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Poll Question: Which one is the best/most influential?
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    Posted: August 28 2009 at 22:46
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Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

I'll choose Ali.  Since you left off a hockey player, I'll say Mario Lemieux is the most influential hockey player.  He didn't quite put up Gretzky's record point totals, but he didn't shy away from physical play, and his battle with Hodgkins was truly inspiring.  I remember watching his first game after coming out of retirement when he scored twice against my Leafs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ziRI1uemCk&feature=fvst
 
Exactly my choice. Good pick sir.
 
Almost 2pts per game avg over an injury-riddled carreer.
Turned every amateur winger he had into scoring machines.
Played with chronic back pain that had other people tie his skates.
Defeated Hodgkin's disease (and played on the day of his last radiation treatment, scored a goal and an assist)
Lead Canada to World Championship and Olympic Gold.
Saved the Penguins from bankruptcy and from moving from Pittsburgh.
Retired for 44 months, returned and was still the best at age 35.Confused
 
 
 
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World Athletics: Usain Bolt breaks 200 metres world record in 19.19 seconds
 
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

Walter Payton.......Chicago Bears running back


Well, no doubt he was the beast football player ever.
Not to mention an athlete that was TRULY a good human being.
 
well, Payton might have been the beast but Jim Brown is still the BEST


I said best FOOTBALL player.
Since Payton could run, catch, block, pass, even kick.He could do anything.
Best pure running back...still Barry LOL
But neither is the best sportsman......since you should be able to play multiple sports

In that aspect I think Jim Brown should get some votes for this poll...
He was not only inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame but also the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and was also quite good at basketball
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True. Quite true. But I don't see anyone else do that. I mean, a lot of people have broken a world record, but not their own so many times. Could be different with the sport in question though. Bubka's got his hands deep in pole vault nowadays though, he's making it sure, that no-one will have the equipment, nor the possibility to top his records. I mean, he's basically the leading act and the one who decides how the poles are made and used these days

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Originally posted by Passionist Passionist wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Isinbayeva

I think the stats speak for themselves: 2 olympic gold medals, 2 world championships + one soon to come, 3 indoor championships, European indoor + outdoor champion, youth + junior champion and 26 World records.

Oh, and unlike in swimming, in other sports you don't get a gold medal from every mouse you run over while riding the bus to the swimming hall!



Good choice, I only don't agree with the 26 worlds records - they're more like 26 corrections of a world record. I really think she's doing too many centimeter by centimeter corrections (so did Bubka for that matter).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Isinbayeva

I think the stats speak for themselves: 2 olympic gold medals, 2 world championships + one soon to come, 3 indoor championships, European indoor + outdoor champion, youth + junior champion and 26 World records.

Oh, and unlike in swimming, in other sports you don't get a gold medal from every mouse you run over while riding the bus to the swimming hall!



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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

Walter Payton.......Chicago Bears running back


Well, no doubt he was the beast football player ever.
Not to mention an athlete that was TRULY a good human being.
 
well, Payton might have been the beast but Jim Brown is still the BEST


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Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

Walter Payton.......Chicago Bears running back


Well, no doubt he was the beast football player ever.
Not to mention an athlete that was TRULY a good human being.
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Walter Payton.......Chicago Bears running back
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Originally posted by Chris H Chris H wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Roger Federer.



Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. LOL
 
Zing!
LOL Just a small "blip" for Mr Federer - He is still the greatest!

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I went for Carl Lewis off the list. Amazing athlete.  Can't see any Aussie Rules Players or CricketersLOL
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Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

Football and Hockey were left off while Tennis and Soccer were included?
this polls silly
 
Well soccer is the most popular sport on the planet and by 348920918201 miles so maybe it's not so silly to include it over two sports that are enjoyed mostly in northamerica and by 87 people in the rest of the world... Wink
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Ah yes, Parkour.....the French sport of running away LOL

But really....isn't that all it is. Running.
I did something like that once. A friend and I invented "extreme walking" we would run and jump/spin off walls.
Skateboarding...but with our legs
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Although, the 500 era riders were much more "crazy" considering they had no electronics on their bikes.


Edited by KoS - August 16 2009 at 18:59
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Also, one of my other weird nominees...
how about David Belle, the father of parkour? It may not be a sport, but you can't watch this video and say he's not an athletic guy.
 


Edited by Chris H - August 16 2009 at 18:52
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This Guy

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Lance Armstrong get my vote easy



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Usain Bolt

Sure, maybe he's not the greatest sportsman ever....but he's a runner....and his last name is Bolt!!

EDIT: Damn, someone beat me to it....I love Bolt though!


Edited by JJLehto - August 16 2009 at 17:14
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On the face of it you are correct, Bolt ran flat out to beat Johnson's record so we could be talking about 100ths of a second. However Johnson took the record down by 3/10ths in 1996 so who knows?
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